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Posted By bubba2 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsWhat happens when America's airwaves fill with hate? The Bill Moyers Journal traveled to Knoxville, where a recent shooting by Jim David Adkisson at the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church has left the pastor asking what role hateful speech from popular right-wing media personalities may have played in the tragedy. "A lot of people are hurling insults from the safety of television studios, the safety of radio studio, the safety of cyberspace," says Rev. Chris Buice.
Why did Adkisson hate "the liberal movement"? Police said that he told them "that all liberals should be killed ... because they were ... ruining the country, and that he felt that the Democrats had tied his country's hands in the war on terror and ... ruined every institution in America...." Police said that Adkisson had targeted the Unitarian Universalist Church "because of its liberal teachings." The church advocates social justice and tolerance, and it openly welcomes gay, lesbian, and transgendered members. According to police, Adkisson said that, "Because he could not get to the leaders of the liberal movement that he would target those that had voted them in to office."
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I AM OUTTA here! The new format STILL S-U-C-K-S! Propeller has NO idea what "spam" is (or is not) and I am tired of dealing ...
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Thanks ... don't want to be too public about it, but my mother passed away 1 week ago. We worked out and got through all of the family communications and visitations and services. She developed congestive heart failure, and once it set in, there was nothing to be done but keep her comfortable until the end. She was 86 and had done pretty well until this year.
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I happened to see this story on the Bill Moyers Journal and decided to post it. Don't know how many will see it, but it is SO descriptive of what is wrong with media and talk radio and "journalism" in our country. It is only a matter of time before another "Adkisson" commits violence against innocent people because of all the hate speech they have heard and how they have been pushed into a rage for no good reason whatsoever.
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